RHSA-2023:0399 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · January 24, 2023
Updated · June 28, 2026
Topic
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
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kernel: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device. (CVE-2022-2964)
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hw: cpu: LFENCE/JMP Mitigation Update for CVE-2017-5715 (CVE-2021-26401)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Bug Fix(es):
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Prevent unnecessary resets - Avoid leaving shost->last_reset with stale value if EH does not run (BZ#2128337)
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i40e: Request to backport upstream commit 2e5a20573a92 (BZ#2129248)
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disable VMA-based swap-in readahead on PowerPC (BZ#2142455)